Moka Kamishiraishi and Toma Ikuta are cast in NTV drama series “We Are Worse at Love than Pandas.” The romantic-comedy drama series is based on 2021 novel “Panda yori Koi ga Nigatena Watashitachi” by Kazuaki Sena. Moka Kamishiraishi, playing her first main character in a terrestrial broadcast drama series, will portray Ichiha Shibata. She joins a publishing company in hopes of working in their fashion magazine as an editor. But, she ends up working in a lifestyle magazine. She gets tasked with planning a love advice column for a famous model. She seeks out help from Tsukasa Shido, played by Toma Ikuta. His specialty is studying animal courtship behavior.
“We Are Worse at Love than Pandas” will first air January, 2026 (takes over NTV’s Saturday 9PM time slot after “The Right to Judge“).
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Ichiha Shibata (Moka Kamishiraishi) joins a publishing company, hoping to fulfill her dream of becoming a fashion magazine editor. On the first day at her job, she is informed that their fashion magazine will be cancelled. She is devastated. While working in the editing department of a lifestyle magazine, she spends her days without any real motivation or purpose. One day, she receives a task of planning a love advice column written by her favorite model Aria Haizawa. But, Aria Haizawa does not have any intention to write the column. She orders Ichiha Shibata to write the column as her ghostwriter.
An agonized Ichiha Shibata visits associate professor Tsukasa Shido (Toma Ikuta), who studies love. His speciality isn’t in human love, but animal courtship behavior. He has an attractive appearance, but doesn’t hold interest in anything else besides animal behavior. At first, Ichiha Shibata is confused, but, with the ways animals love each other, she discovers hints that lead to human love and life.
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